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When the Wind Farms Went Dark

What Poland's Grid Attack Means for UK Energy

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Amer Altaf
Feb 17, 2026
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Wind turbines at dusk with digital data overlays showing some systems in warning state, representing the cyberattack on Polish distributed energy resources.

Why it matters: Late last year, Russian state actors deployed wiper malware across 30 Polish wind, solar, and combined heat and power facilities — the first documented destructive cyberattack on dist…

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